How to force access to use Outlook as email client

[Anders Bang]

Hi,

We have recently been forced to migrate from Lotus Notes R5 to
Microsoft Outlook 2000. According to the Internet Explorer proporties,
Outlook is the default e-mail client - however the list is geyed out.

When I use the DoCmd.SendObject function in VBA-macros from Access 97,
the database still insists on using Lotus Notes to send the email. How
can I force Access to use Outlook instead?

Thanks for your help.
Anders Bang

 

[Steve Schapel]

Anders,

I only have access at the moment to Outlook 2003, and these instructions
apply:
On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click Other.
Under General, select the 'Make Outlook the default program for E-mail,
Contacts, and Calendar' check box.

If you can't find equivalent functionality for Outlook 2000, maybe a
post to the microsoft.public.outlook.general or
microsoft.public.outlook.configuration newsgroup might help.

 

[Anders Bang]

I only have access at the moment to Outlook 2003, and these instructions

apply:
On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click Other.
Under General, select the 'Make Outlook the default program for E-mail,
Contacts, and Calendar' check box.
....

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately Outlook 2000 doesn't have
this setting. But if it did, wouldn't it correspond to the setting in
Internet Explorer proporties I referred to in my first message?
Outlook 2000 already is the default email client on my system
(lauching the mail client using the mail button on the IE toolbar
opens up Outllok 2000), so that is not the problem. The problem is to
get Access to use the default mail client.

Regards
Anders

 

[Steve Schapel]

Anders,

I am not an expert in this area. In my experience with Access, it has
always used the default email client. My understanding would be that
what Internet Explorer regards as its default email client, and the
system default email client, are not necessarily the same thing... but I
would need to check with an Outlook guru about this.

Anyway, any reason for keeping the Lotus Notes on your computer? Would
it solve the problem to uninstall the redundant software?